After a good two weeks of solid and perpetual caterpillar collecting, hoarding, chauffering (yes, they were given many a ride in the wagon) and, ultimately, burying (poor things), the boys have slowly begun accepting that caterpillars do, in fact, ultimately go away and become butterflies. Secretly, I am so very very happy that we're no longer finding them by the dozens. Yes, it started out as rather cute and adorable. But, after several days of finding caterpillars EVERYWHERE, I was ready for the metamorphasis to begin!! For what it's worth, the boys became amazingly adept at carrying up to six or seven little caterpillars in each hand without squishing them. They would just loosely fold their little fingers around them and you could watch the caterpillars wiggling around in the boys' small hands. Once you got past the gross-factor, it as actually pretty cute.
Anyway, here are a few photos from last week, when the caterpillars were still quite numerous. Jaxon is in blue and Dexter is in red.
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